Hi all - every foreigner wishing to enter Libya must go through a number of steps prior to the issue. Firstly, the passport must be translated into Arabic by a Libyan Embassy accredited translater. Secondly you must organise your tour through a travel agency who will issue your invitation for visa to Libya. I can advise that this takes some time so make sure that you start the process weeks ahead of your proposed travel. This is not necessary because of the slowness of the embassy but rather with the travel agents who will take time to reply to emails etc. etc.

As for your itinerary, I would definitely go to Libya first, you can then cross into Egypt and depending on your passport you can get your visa at the border.

I do not agree with using 2 passports at all!! Whenever you enter a country they want to know how you arrived at the border - right?? You didn't drop out of the sky!!I once had a man on a tour who did just this (without telling me). We arrived at the border of Jordan/Syria to cross into Syria and he produced another country passport, explaining to me that he had an Israeli visa stamp in the other one. Well, I can tell you we had a very very unpleasant 2 hours at the crossing and eventually he had to part with a fairly large amount of US$ to continue into Syria - so please be wary of doing this!!! Also I didn't know it was possible to have 2 current passports from the same country. when you apply for a new passport don't they normally cancel the old one??

Ibidunni,

You must follow the steps as I indicated in my last post. If there is no Libyan Embassy in Nigeria then you should have your passport translated at the nearest Libyan mission. Then you must contact a travel agent who will organise the rest. Also please be advised that it is impossible to travel to Libya as a private individual. You must have a driver/guide with you at all times.